On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 1:51 AM, Jim Myers <myer...@gmail.com> wrote:

>
> I've look all over docs and Google to find a way to do this with no
> real luck.
>
> I'm using a legacy PostGreSQL database which already has user and
> permissions tables defined, and I don't want to have to create
> parallel Django User tables.
>
> It seems simple that I should just be able to completely replace the
> User model, but it's not.
>
> I've tried many ways of doing this to no avail.
> I think I probably have to completely clone Django code in my project
> but I'm not sure which pieces I have to have.
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>

Sounds like you want:

http://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/3011

which is not implemented yet.  I'm not even sure a design is agreed on yet.


In the meantime there is the possibility of providing your own
authentication backend:

http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/auth/#authentication-backends

Karen

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